【正文】 acplishment of the desired result with a minimum loss of time and resources. The implementation of an uptodate logistics management in panies provides more effectiveness. This means to use outsourcing. Logistics outsourcing brings to the reduction of stocks, ordertodelivery leadtime reductions and an increase of quality, expansion of production flexibility, lowering the cost of production, accelerated capital turnover. This guarantees lower production costs and better quality of deliveries, which is a decisive petitive advantage. The application of logistics outsourcing helps the rational allocation of resources to those types of business, which are worth peting and where the pany has distinctive advantages. So this work debates the application of logistics outsourcing as a means for ensuring petitive advantages for an organization. Keywords: outsourcing, logistics, provider 1. Introduction The petitive advantages, connected with the growth of globalization and innovations, begin to lose gradually their originality, and new petitive advantages e up in frontflexibility, ordertodelivery leadtime reductions, reliable and quality deliveries, and choice opportunities. The ability of manufacturers to join the individual consumer preferences together with their production process and system of planning will be a decisive factor in the field of petition. The solution of the problem with individual client orders is possible only by setting up of a flexible system of production management. Firstly, it will require the implementation of new and uptodate concepts of production management like CFM (Customer Focused Manufacturing), SCM (Supply Chain Management) and technologies, based on the same concepts as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), etc. It will also require supply handling, synchronized with production and effective distribution based on the interaction of logistics intermediaries. Secondly, it is necessary to optimize the transportation system both at a micro and macrolevel. The plex development of transport infrastructure is based on the standardization of goods and freight, means of transportation, mechanisms of handling cargo, delivery speed, widening of road and railway works, improvement of service maintenance. Thirdly, the information exchange plays an increasing part. Industrial panies have to interact in the field of information so that information can be accessed in the right form, at the right time, by the right authorities and in authentic type, protected from unauthorized use. The aim of the paper is to examine the application of logistics outsourcing as a means of assuring a petitive advantage for an organization. 2. Contemporary logistics management and outsourcing The aim of logistics process is formulated by the basic rule of logistics – the 7R principle: the right product with the right quality in the right quantity has to be delivered at the right time and right place to the right customer at the right cost. Disregarding of even one of the above conditions may lead to a loss of customers and, thus, to a decrease of the pany’s petitive advantages and reduction of its market share. The logistics approach, unlike the traditional one, suggests integration (technical, technological, information and economic) of separate units in the delivery supply chain into a unified system of direct management of material and information flows targeting the acplishment of the desired result with a minimum loss of time and resources. The implementation of an uptodate logistics management in panies provides reduction of stocks, high predisposition of merchandise towards deliveries, ordertodelivery leadtime reductions and an i